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The Gazillion-Dollar Question

In this class, we will show students that simply asking why produces answers that lead to terrific character-driven fiction. Students will pose the question about their own ideas and shape short stories out of their responses.

About the Instructor:
Mary Jo Melone's stories have appeared in the Iron Horse Literary Review, 2 Bridges Review, Crack the Spine, Gris-Gris, and Philadelphia Stories. She was a contributor to the linked flash fiction collection, 15 Views of Tampa Bay, in the second volume of Corridor, published by Burrow Press in Orlando. Her non-fiction essays have appeared in the Tampa Review. She received her MFA from USF in 2011 and last year was a writer-in-residence at Rivendell Writers Colony in Sewanee, TN. Since 2013, she has been an annual participant in the Yale Writers Conference. She is also a linguist, and in a time long ago, was a metro columnist for what they now insist on calling the Tampa Bay Times. At the moment, she is working on a collection of short stories set in Florida.

Saturday, December 10 (1:00-3:00pm)